Improvement in rocking-chairs



G. ROEDER. Rocking-Chair.

No. 200,937. Patented March 5, 1878.

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4O J@ a /g ITNESSES I N. PETERS. PHOTO UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ROEDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROCKING-CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,937, dated March 5,1878; application filed December 22, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ROEDER, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Rocking-Chair, of which thefollowing is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a sectional sideelevation of my improved rocking-chair; Fig. 2, a vertical transversesection of the same, on line as :0, Fig. l; and Fig. 3, a detail sideview of the center plate of the rocker-frame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention refers to an improved rockin g-chair of that class inwhich the seat swings by curved rockers on straight rails of abaseframe, and is connected thereto by strong springs, the improvementbeing more especially intended to secure the regular rocking of the seatpart without the sliding of the rockers on the rails; and the inventionconsists of a base part with straight rails, having a center plate withend hooks, in connection with a spring connected rocker -frame of theseat, having a center plate with front stop-pin and central bottom lug,entering a corresponding recess or socket of the rail, so as to retainthe rocking frame in proper position on the rail.

In the drawing, A represents the base-frame of my rocking-chair, havingstraight top rails B and O, the seat part of the same, having curvedrockers D, of the customary construction. The base and seat frames areconnected by strong rubber or other springs a, that are secured to hooksor pins a of the center plates E E of the base and seat frames. Thecenter plates E E are securely attached to the base and seat frames,respectively, and the lower plate E provided with hook I), of which thefront hook only engages a pin, d, of the rocker-plate E, so as to stopthe return motion of the chair, the forward motion being generallystopped by the feet. I

The center plates E of the rockers are further provided with centralbottom lugs or projections e, that extend into recesses or sockets e ofthe rails B, so as to serve for the purpose of retaining the rockingseat part in the proper position on the base part, and returning thesame at each forward or backward motion to the required position in casethe seat part, for some reason or other, should have been moved out ofits proper place on the base -frame. This resetting or regulating of thechair by the entrance of the projecting lugs into the recesses of therails simplifies the construction, and renders the chair cheaper, and atthe same time more reliable, than the other complicated constructionsthat have aimed at accomplishing the same object.

I hereby declare that I do not claim as my invention the combination,with either or both rockers of a rocking-chair and a chair-supportingframe, of a pin secured to the rocker or rockers, a spring which isconnected to said pin at one end and to the supporting-frame at theother end, and of an upwardly-projecting slotted plate secured to saidsupporting-frame, the slot in said plate being constructed to embracethe pin, and to form both a guide and stop for the latter, and providedwith an opening to permit the removal of the chair-the above not havingbeen invented by me.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- As an improvement in rocking-chairs, thecombination of the base-frame, having straight top rails and centerplates with hook ends, with a rocking seat-frame, connected by suitablesprings to the base, and having center plates with stop-pins anddownward-projecting bottom lugs entering recesses or sockets of therails, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE ROEDER.

Witnesses PAUL GoEPEL, O. SEDGWICK.

